Falklands rations seats on the UK airbridge forced by the volcanic ash

The impact of the volcanic ash is straining the Falkland Islands air links with the United Kingdom forcing the rationing of seats for northbound passengers because of the repeated cancelling of the airbridge with Brize Norton.

Stanley has also suffered the consequences of the Puyehue volcano in the Andes

A release from the Falklands’ government Secretariat informs that because of the merging of three flights on to one aircraft “we are likely to have to ration the numbers of passengers travelling northbound significantly”.

The priority system will be as follows: Passengers flying for medical reasons (as designated by the Director of Health and Education); Falkland Island Students returning to study (as designated by the Director of Health and Education); Business passengers who can demonstrate at the time of booking that failure to travel on the flight will have a serious and unavoidable impact on their business.

This is expected to apply only exceptionally (evidence may be required); exceptionally any other passenger who can show it is essential they travel on the flight; Passengers who have purchased or been allocated Premium Economy class seating

Any passenger who thinks they may meet one of the above criteria should contact the Secretariat.

Once any priorities have been taken into account seats will be allocated using the date order in which passengers were originally due to fly.

Passengers will be telephoned during the course of Friday 10 June to inform them if they have been allocated a seat on the next outbound airbridge. If you are not contacted you can assume that you will not be traveling.

The MoD have advised: “we will automatically refund any charges in respect of flights cancelled due to the ash cloud; we won’t expect people to try to claim against their travel insurance first. For cancellations of other reasons, the normal cancellation rules will apply.”

Passengers are strongly advised to travel Lan if at all possible as the present ash situation suggests a greater chance of being able to travel on this route.

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Agie THICKOS above- Exactly the same will ahppen in Buenos Aires when it to reopens for flights- not eveyone will be able to get on the first flights after the build up of cancelled flights.
So here, we educated British folks, simply organise ourselves into a priority system of those who have the most urgent need to travel first get seats on the first flight etc. Then the less urgent wait until the next one and by the end of a few days all is normal again.
I assume you uneducated hysterical fantasisers just mob and riot at the checkin desks instead?

MartinFierro - hate to shatter your delusions but there are plenty of up to date documents about from official Govt Departments of South American nations that use the words FALKLAND ISLANDS - or ISLAS FALKANDS . Now I am not going to give you any more info as those countries get enough whinging and whining from Buenos Aires anyway in their ears - thats why they sign vari0us meaningless memorandums etc to try and keep your Govt quieter!

The three former police officers were charged in the slaying of five women. The women are said to have been drugged in the airplane and was thrown out of the airplane while they were still alive, according to the reports.

The murders of the nuns protecting Argentine people during the Dirty War. Tell me how they compare as what you term the Brits murdering nuns.

Many times I have been sickened by the callous disregard for human tragedy displayed by the Argentine posters here, however, even I never thought you'd stoop so low. I guess I shouldn't be surprised anymore, just when I think you've scraped the bottom of the barrel you dig deep and go further.

Citing technicalities, the Argentina Supreme Court has again refused the extradition request made by Israel to send back a convicted murderer and felon who escaped on a forged passport.

The Argentine Government today denied a request by the newly installed Paraguayan Government to extradite its former military chief. The former official is accused of having ordered the assassination of the Paraguayan Vice President.

Argentina refuses to extradite ex-junta leader for 'dirty war' crime

A criminal law court on Tuesday rejected Germany's extradition request for Videla, wanted in the March 1977 kidnapping and killing of activist Elisabeth Kaesemann. The court ruled crimes committed in Argentina are first subject to its judiciary

An Argentine court on Tuesday refused to extradite Chilean ex-guerrilla Sergio Apablaza Guerra, who is wanted in his country on charges of slaying a senator in 1991.

Federal Judge Claudio Bonadio issued his ruling on Monday and ordered Apablaza's immediate release on the grounds that he would not be assured due process if sent to Chile, noting that some of the requirements specified in extradition legislation had not been met.

Those links of yours are old, stick.
Apablaza can't be extradited to Chile because that's what Human Rights are made for, to protect people like Apablaza, change them if you don't like them, create different Human Rights that are likable to you.

But some Chileans accused Argentina of tarnishing its human rights legacy by defending a man accused of assassinating a sitting senator during a democratic government. Both crimes occurred in 1991, after the end of the 1973-1990 dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.

@ 42 her friends are imaginary friends, but she loves them, and I don't think that's a problem. Maggie's and Galtieri's friend was alcohol, and look what happened, so leave Cristina and her friends alone.

my friends British are scum of the world and should be liquidated! Argenine will crush British colonials in Malvinas and kill all! Our military will not be welcome back in Argentine until they kill ALL British colonial scum!

We must hang the traitors of 82, we need military with strength to crush liberal red scum and liquidate British from our country! Death to colonial, death to British, spit on their graves. They are sub human race

There are not many Latinos living in the colder parts of Argentina, it's mainly Northern Europeans. On the same basis that Argentina claims the Falkland Islands, we could claim Southern Argentina, after all we helped settle it and we built all the railways, we built towns and farms. Some of my Welsh ancestors set sail on the Candelaria to settle those lands almost 200 years ago, when I was there a few years back, they didn't seem to happy with the Argentine government and the hot headed morons who had run the country for the past 60+ years! It's time we liberated them, they told me they would welcome it! And much of Southern Argentina is closer to the Falkland Islands, than Buenos Aires. I think there would be a good case in the UN for decolonising Southern Argentina from the hot heads in Buenos Aires. We can then grand them independence as the Republic of Pategonia. Reducing the threat to the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands at the same time.

Filippo [flipping cheek ]
For only the argie are actively and slowly stealing bits of the Antarctica are they not, and if the world turn away, you would claim the lot,
don’t do as we say, just do what we do, and Argentina certainly does ,,mm

@52JarrettSmith,
l've been saying something similar for quite a while.
Patagonia is ourlegitimate right anyway.
One thing for sure its no more a silly idea than the Falklands belonging to Argentina.
lt would make the Argentines further away from Antarctica too.
Now, how can we do it?

Yes Malen. If it wasn't for the aggressive and genocidal expansionist policies of the Argentine government in the early 1870s things might just have been different and a mad Frenchman might just have been on the throne of the Kingdom of Araucanía and Patagonia. Oh well, bad luck for him.

Read this www.portalplanetasedna.com.ar/patagonia3.htm
all he wanted was to steal america, to create a new france, same as the spanish, and marketing of guano....behind his monarchy intentions.
nothing new, steal steal steal silver land guano whatever

64 we dont like foreigner invaders
and roberts about the desert conquest that was internal conflicts that we resolved how we could at that time. in 1810 there were 6000 spaniards less than 1 % and 700.000 inhabitants in between natives, criollos and mestizos = argentines. This last people fought for independence from spain and also against brothers others natives in Patagonia. we also have wars against others countries in the continent internal problems like two brothers fihghting for whatever, different it comes when foreigners europeans come here pretending to have something that never could have belonged to them. at least Patagonia its a free land if not today it would be an usurpated land dependent of a foreigner country

66 When are you going to give all the land south of the Rio Negro back to Chile?
Internal conflicts. You butchered the Indians. They were there thousands of years before you.
Most RG's are of European descent. Look in the phone book. How many native names?
Plenty of Spanish, Italian, British, etc etc.

NicoDin king of Malvinas, Georgias, Antartida, Mohammed’s land (ex UK) and France just in case.

Through the power conferred to my grace I appoint in the following act:

Malen Princess of Malvinas.
Markus Alejandro Prince of Georgia.
Think Baron of west Artartida and head of the foreign office
Martin_Fierro Baron of East Antartica and head of the home office
Artillero601 Baron of south Antartida and minister of defence and on especial duty in Texas USA.

Now I need the head of the treasury, head of the Inland tax revenue (Kings need to collect money because kingdoms are expensive).

Commoner Redhoyt in my kingdom is not allowed to refer directly to Your Highness (me) or to any member of this Royal family.

So please use commoner channels.

1- If you are not a legal resident of my Kingdom, I suggest you to talk with our Baron Think who is in charge of the Foreigner Office matters.
2- If you are a legal resident of my Kingdom, I suggest you to talk with Baron Martin Fierro who is in charge of the Home Office and local affairs.

Nicholas has really lost it this time! He would make Think a Baron! A dedicated communist like Think becoming part of the aristocracy. His red mates would liquidate him!
@74 J.A.Roberts,
There's no doublethink like Argy doublethink! -btw J.R., are you related to the Lincolnshire Roberts clan?(thats assuming your name IS Roberts & not a nom-de-plume).

Nico: Too much work to be a princess jajajaja
I prefer to be in charge of the official press sth like MalviPress
copy and paste articles from google and put a little touch of proargie sentences in between from time to time :)
barilo can be good for the finances, equilibrated man

@78 Think,
Beneath the chest of a revolutionary beats the heart of a conservative.
Beneath the chest of a socialist beats the heart of a would be Duke or Baron.
l guess that l'm the opposite.
Beneath my conservative chest beats the heart of a born Rebel.
l believe that l was pretty uncontrollable at school.

Miss, Argentina’s been naughty again,
She’s broke china slipped over Greece and hurt turkey,
And now claims its chilli outside, she has stolen brazils, nuts.
And thrown, falks over land again.
If she is going to act like a child, she will be treated like a child,
Argentina, bed please no hot chocolate or Peru nuts, BED lol
[some things never change ]

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